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Yahoo News |
6:23pm PDT |
1st. big foreign aid flights finally let in by Myanmar junta
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Summary: AP - Myanmar's military regime allowed in the first major international aid shipment Thursday, but it snubbed a U.S. offer to help cyclone victims struggling to recover from a tragedy of unimaginable scale. |
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Cnn.com |
6:15pm PDT |
After gulping cars, trees, sinkhole may be full |
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Cnn.com |
6:15pm PDT |
After gulping cars, poles, sinkhole may be full |
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BBC News |
6:03pm PDT |
Ant and Dec return comedy prize |
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Summary: TV presenters Ant and Dec are to return a comedy award after ITV revealed that they did not win. |
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Yahoo News |
6:02pm PDT |
Celtics, Cavs getting banged up in playoff Game 2
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Cleveland forward Ben Wallace left Thursday night's playoff game against Boston in the first quarter, complaining of dizziness, and Boston's Kendrick Perkins and Paul Pierce were also banged up in the first half. |
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Cnn.com |
5:58pm PDT |
Iraq says Al Qaeda leader caught; U.S. has doubts |
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Summary: U.S. intelligence officials say they are skeptical about reports that Iraqi police had arrested the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq. A man who identified himself as Abu Ayyub al-Masri was found Thursday sleeping on a thin mattress in Mosul. But a number of U.S |
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BBC News |
5:52pm PDT |
Forcing aid to Burma 'incendiary' |
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Summary: Threatening to drop aid into Burma without permission is "incendiary" says international development secretary. |
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BBC News |
5:45pm PDT |
Judge to rule on Fritzl custody |
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Summary: The Austrian accused of locking his daughter in a cellar for 24 years is to appear before a judge. |
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BBC News |
5:25pm PDT |
Body removed from explosion site |
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Summary: The body of a man killed in an explosion which destroyed three houses is removed from the debris. |
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BBC News |
5:20pm PDT |
MySpace lets users share data |
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Summary: MySpace says its "data availability" project will put users in the driving seat with web information sharing. |
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BBC News |
5:08pm PDT |
Johnson to meet New York's mayor |
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Summary: Big city mayors meet to swap notes on the task of running two of the world's most important cities. |
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Yahoo News |
5:05pm PDT |
7 more cops pulled from Philly streets over taped beating
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Summary: AP - Seven more police officers were taken off street duty Thursday as investigators look into the videotaped police beating of three shooting suspects during a traffic stop. |
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ChristianPost |
5:04pm PDT |
Evangelicals Set Record Straight on Image Problem |
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Summary: Evangelicals have a serious image problem and need to reform their ways by getting back to the historic meaning of their identity, declared prominent leaders of the movement on ... |
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Yahoo News |
4:51pm PDT |
Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families
(AP)
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Summary: AP - Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives. |
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Yahoo News |
4:38pm PDT |
Obama open to Clinton as running mate
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama on Thursday
did not rule out selecting rival Hillary Clinton as his vice
presidential running mate if he ultimately defeats her in a
race in which he has an almost insurmountable lead. |
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BBC News |
4:33pm PDT |
Global manhunt nets abuse suspect |
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Summary: A man suspected of sexually abusing boys in South-East Asia is arrested in the US after a rare Interpol appeal. |
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ChristianPost |
4:20pm PDT |
Legal Group Defends Students' Pro-Abstinence T-Shirts |
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Summary: A religious freedom and civil liberties legal group has come to the defense of two public high school students in central Virginia after they were reportedly reprimanded by school administrators to cease wearing pro-abstinence ... |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
Catch-up reading scheme 'success' |
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Summary: A government-backed reading scheme shows lasting results for struggling readers, research suggests. |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
Scheme helps bad readers catch up |
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Summary: A government-backed reading scheme shows lasting results for struggling readers. |
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BBC News |
4:17pm PDT |
Reading scheme boost for children |
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Summary: A government-backed reading scheme shows lasting results for struggling readers, research suggests. |
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Yahoo News |
4:14pm PDT |
Israeli PM denies taking illicit donations from American
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Summary: AP - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert denied fresh accusations that he illegally accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars from a U.S. citizen, but said Thursday night that he will step down if he is indicted. |
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
Museum is top visitor attraction |
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Summary: New figures show Scotland's most visited attraction is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. |
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BBC News |
4:13pm PDT |
Museum Scotland's top attraction |
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Summary: New figures show Scotland's most visited attraction is Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum. |
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BBC News |
4:12pm PDT |
Centrica wind farm cost warning |
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Summary: Centrica warns that the prospect of making money from wind farms is looking "marginal" due to high costs. |
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Yahoo News |
4:10pm PDT |
U.S. says 5-10 percent of Guantanamo inmates fight again
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Between 5 and 10 percent of inmates
freed from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay have
returned to terrorism since their release, U.S. Defense
Secretary Robert Gates said on Thursday. |
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Yahoo News |
4:07pm PDT |
Israel's Olmert admits taking cash but won't quit
(Reuters)
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Summary: Reuters - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
admitted on Thursday that he took cash from an American
businessman but refused to resign over a police investigation
into hundreds of thousands of dollars of alleged bribes. |
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BBC News |
4:06pm PDT |
Soaring spirits |
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Summary: The first distillery in Wales for more than 100 years |
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BBC News |
4:04pm PDT |
Spiralling crisis |
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Summary: Civil war fears grip Lebanon as gun battles continue |
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BBC News |
4:02pm PDT |
Promises made over NHS overhaul |
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Summary: Ministers have sought to allay fears over the forthcoming overhaul of the NHS in England. |
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BBC News |
4:01pm PDT |
Early baby survival 'unchanged' |
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Summary: Babies born at 23 weeks or earlier are no more likely to survive than they were a decade ago, a study finds. |
